The booster pack generator (my use of random.sample as described in a
previous message) is working as intended now.
There was a rather stupid typo in my code that was causing it to go wonky.
Y'all still helped, though. A few people replied, but a bit of advice
from: W W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pointed me in the right direction.
for card in random.sample(SpecialA, SA):
print card
he suggested changing to:
print "Special: ", SpecialA, "\nSA: ", SA
for card in random.sample(SpecialA, SA):
print card
Basically, what my program was doing:
1. Take a textfile, import it/convert it to a list via
open("filename.txt).readlines() This list was defined as the variable
"SpecialA_list".
2. Feed SpecialA_list, along with some other variables, into my function
3. "SpecialA" variable is set equal to a list consisting of items from
"SpecialA_list"
4. Then sample from "SpecialA" & print the results.
Thanks to the print statement that WW suggested, I figured out that
the "SpecialA" variable was coming out as an empty list. [error in
Step 3 of the above process list, so Step 4 had nothing to sample
*from*, thus triggering the traceback].
I found the typo that was causing this, and fixed it. So, the SpecialA
variable was set equal to the expected list, so random.sample could
sample properly.
Thank you. :)
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